Minor in Community Engaged Leadership
Do meaningful work to improve your communities by earning the Community Engaged Leadership Minor.
About this Minor
The minor in Community Engaged Leadership (CEL) is an interdisciplinary minor that equips students with the skills to analyze and understand significant problems facing our communities. As part of their academic work, students are challenged to explore their relationships with these problems and imagine possible solutions. Additionally, students do meaningful, hands-on work to improve our communities through a project co-designed with an off-campus partner.
The minor provides an overview of how students can ethically and effectively partner with community-based organizations. To help them form collaborative partnerships the CEL minor introduces students to different theory of change frameworks and partnership best practices.
The CEL minor culminates in a capstone project in collaboration with an off-campus community-based organization.
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Program Information
Program Type
Minor
Area of Study
Social Sciences, Law, and Policy
School
Duration
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Degree
Program Location
Emphases
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Required Credit Hours
19 credit hours
Degree Requirements
The CEL minor is an interdisciplinary minor consisting of 19 credit hours.
Core courses include
- CEL 210. Intro to Community Engaged Leadership
- CEL 310. Community Engaged Leadership Capstone
Beyond the core courses, students must take an additional 12 hours of qualifying courses approved by the minor's governing body comprised of representatives from each school and college.
Qualifying courses for the CEL minor include
- BUS 101. Business for a Better World
- BUS 300. Business Internship
- COUN 301. Multicultural Issues in Helping Professions
- EDCI 320. Service Projects in Science Ed. K-12
- EDLD 120. Advancing the First-Year Experience
- MGMT 391. Organizational Behavior
- MGMT 495. Leadership and Group Dynamics
- PH 528. Public Health Policy
- PHIL 102. Introduction to Professional Ethics
- SRA 262. Introduction to Therapeutic Recreation
- SST 101. Introduction to Southern Studies
- SST 109. Rights and Southern Activism
- SST 560. Oral History of Southern Social Movement
- Writ 345. Community Writing
Why is a minor in Community Engaged Leadership important?
The Community Engaged Leadership minor prepares students to be an active and knowledgeable community member. Once students complete the CEL minor they are prepared to assess, understand, and find solutions to whatever problems their community may face. Students will also have the skills to partner and collaborate with diverse community partners to help ensure that community needs are met.
A student that completes the CEL minor will hone unique core competencies, including:- Civic Literacy. The ability to understand the institutions, structures, ideas, and practices that make up the frameworks for shared life in our society.
- Civic Agency. The knowledge of how to effectively influence and transform the institutions, structures, ideas, and practices that constitute shared life in order to improve equity and justice.
- Civic Imagination. The ability to envision and articulate structures, ideas, and practices to create a shared life grounded in equity and justice.
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